Apparently the People's Action Party's (PAP) Wikipedia page was 'trolled' on Wednesday.
According to The Straits Times, the party name was changed to "Party Against People" and lines such as "down with the fascists" and "vote for Opposition" were added to the page.
User "AlikVesilev" also wrote that Tan Tock Seng Hospital's sacking of blogger Roy Ngerng was "proof of (the PAP's) suppression of freedom of speech".
Tampines GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Mr. Baey Yam Keng wrote on Facebook earlier today, flagging The Straits Times' article, which said that the former had called on Singapore's ruling party to consider legal action.
In the post, he wrote that though he felt "changing the name of a party and launching a coordinated attack with malicious edits (were) not acceptable code of conduct", "advocating legal action" was "NEVER on top of (his) mind, nor is it PAP's priority".
He also reminded that "there are avenues available to express one's views, however differing and dissenting", but Wikipedia — though an open source platform — is not one of them.
Many internet users, me included, will disagree with the MP, call (or not call?) for legal action aside.
'Trolling', a modern term used to describe online pranks that often include deregatory memes, is a frequent activity of social media users and Wikipedia, as much as it's become a go-to source for facts spanning pop culture and personalities, isn't spared from it. If the PAP's going to be offended by careless edits on a platform that isn't and shouldn't be used as an official background source, then it would be no time at all before local favourites SGAG and SMRT Ltd. (Feedback) begin to come under fire.
And then, there will be 'war'. Photo: Screenshot of PAP Wiki page, which has since been corrected
Apparently the People's Action Party's (PAP) Wikipedia page was 'trolled' on Wednesday.
According to The Straits Times, the party name was changed to "Party Against People" and lines such as "down with the fascists" and "vote for Opposition" were added to the page.
User "AlikVesilev" also wrote that Tan Tock Seng Hospital's sacking of blogger Roy Ngerng was "proof of (the PAP's) suppression of freedom of speech".
Tampines GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Mr. Baey Yam Keng wrote on Facebook earlier today, flagging The Straits Times' article, which said that the former had called on Singapore's ruling party to consider legal action.
In the post, he wrote that though he felt "changing the name of a party and launching a coordinated attack with malicious edits (were) not acceptable code of conduct", "advocating legal action" was "NEVER on top of (his) mind, nor is it PAP's priority".
He also reminded that "there are avenues available to express one's views, however differing and dissenting", but Wikipedia — though an open source platform — is not one of them.
Many internet users, me included, will disagree with the MP, call (or not call?) for legal action aside.
'Trolling', a modern term used to describe online pranks that often include deregatory memes, is a frequent activity of social media users and Wikipedia, as much as it's become a go-to source for facts spanning pop culture and personalities, isn't spared from it. If the PAP's going to be offended by careless edits on a platform that isn't and shouldn't be used as an official background source, then it would be no time at all before local favourites SGAG and SMRT Ltd. (Feedback) begin to come under fire.
And then, there will be 'war'. Photo: Screenshot of PAP Wiki page, which has since been corrected